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COMPENDIUM

OF

History Reminiscence
     and Biography
OF

WESTERN NEBRASKA

CONTAINING A

History of the State

of Nebraska

Embracing an account of Early Explorations, Early Settlement, Indian
Occupancy, Indian History and Traditions, Territorial and State
Organizations; a review of the Political History; and
a concise History of the Growth and
Development of the State.

ALSO A

COMPENDIUM OF REMINISCENCE

OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and Representative
Citizens of

WESTERN NEBRASKA

with a review of their life work; their idenity (sic) with the growth and development of the Region;
Reminiscences of Personal History and Pioneer Life and other Interesting
and Valuable Matter which should he preserved in History.

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CHICAGO:

ALDEN PUBLISHING COMPANY,

1909

 
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INDEX to the BIOGRAPHIES

Please use the "FIND" on your browser when checking the index to biographies (we found an alpha indexing error, and have reproduced it as appeared in the original book). The biographies vary in length and cover a total of approximately 900 pages.

ABBOTT-BUSHEE | BUSHNELL-GAMEL | GAMEL-KATEN
KAY-ORMESHLER | O'ROURK-STORY | STORY-ZINKON

Copies of the original can be secured from NSHS (see research instructions). Alternatives: Chappell Library which has this book on the shelves (see the Deuel County page) or Knight Museum in Alliance (Box Butte County page. Please send a generous donation & SASE. Ordering copy must be done by snail mail.

Individual biographies were typed and sent by Carol Britton (Thomas Moore), Nina Clark (John L. Roseberry), Chris Geis (Alonzo McMichael), Alan Williams (James Wright) and H. Morris (Frank E. McLain).

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CHAPTER IV. STATE INSTITUTIONS, SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.
THE NEBRASKA INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND.
STATE PENITENTIARIES.
NEBRASKA HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
ASYLUM FOR THE CHRONIC INSANE
NORFOLK HOSPITAL FOR INSANE.
NEBRASKA INSTITUTION FOR FEEBLE MINDED YOUTHS.
THE HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS.
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS HOME - GRAND ISLAND.
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS HOME - MILFORD.
THE INDUSTRIAL HOME - MILFORD
STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
THE GIRLS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS.
NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
STATE BAR ASSOCIATION.
NEBRASKA PRESS ASSOCIATION.
STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY.

 

CHAPTER V.

RAILROADS.
PIONEER RAILROADS IN NEBRASKA.
RAILROADS OF TODAY.

 

CHAPTER VI.

MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL MATTERS.
THE LOCUSTS OR GRASSHOPPERS.
PUBLIC LANDS.
EDUCATIONAL.
POPULATION OF NEBRASKA.
DID SLAVERY EXIST IN NEBRASKA?
 

BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL begins on page 123.

ILLUSTRATION INDEX

 

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NOTE: This reproduction started in 1998 with Chapters 4,5 and 6; plus the index to biographies.  Thanks to the efforts of Bill Wever, Marilyn Estrada, Chris Geis and Brian Tingley the entire book was "finished" in 2003. Knight Museum (Alliance, NE) then loaned us a copy of the book - one that had fallen apart.  Final proofing was completed Jan. 2004.   Ted & Carole Miller.

June 1998: Portions of a different book have been received, titled "Compendium of History, Reminiscence and Biography of NEBRASKA", published by this same company in 1912. Please note the word "western" is missing from that title. The entire first page of Chapter 4 in that book, matches the first page of Chapter 4 in this book (with some exceptions in capitalization). Our current suspicion is that the general history portions of the two books are the same. The biographies listed are DIFFERENT. We will concentrate on reproducing the biographical material of both books.

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